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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bills.

No. S. 181.-The following bills, which it is proposed to introduce at the next meeting of the Legislative Council, are published for general information.

C.S.O. 3099/25.

[No. 11-10.6.29.—1.]

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 15 of 1908, s. 3 (1) (c).

Retrospective effect.

Ordinance No. 18 of 1923.

Insertion of new section 3A in Ordinance No. 15 of 1908.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend further the Widows'

and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Amendment Ordinance, 1929.

2. Section 3 (1) (e) of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908, is amended by the deletion of the word "not" in the third line.

3. The amendment made by section 2 of this Ordi- nance shall for all purposes whatsoever be deemed to have been made immediately after the coming into operation of the proclamation of the Governor under section 8 (2) of the Ordinances of Hong Kong, 1884- 1923, Ordinance, 1923, which was published in the Gazette of the 19th September, 1924.

4. The following section is inserted in the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908, immediately after section 3 thereof :-

Contributors

to other

schemes.

3A.-(1) No officer shall be required to contribute under this Ordinance if, and for so long as, he is contributing to an approved scheme,

(2) For the purposes of this section an approved scheme means a scheme for the granting of pensions to the widows and children of Government officers, estab- lished in a British Colony or Protectorate or in British India or in any territory in respect of which a mandate is being exer- cised by the government of any part of His Majesty's dominions, which is declared by the Secretary of State to be an approved scheme for the purposes of this section.

(3) Any claim for exemption under this section must be in writing and must reach the Colonial Secretary within three months after the officer commences to draw salary from this Government.

(4) An officer who under this section has claimed exemption from becoming a contributor under this Ordinance may not subsequently become a contributor under this Ordinance unless either he ceases to contribute to the approved scheme, or he marries, or he leaves the service of this Government and is subsequently re-ap- pointed to it.

(5) Nothing in this section shall exempt an officer, who on appointment or re-ap- pointment to the service of this Govern- ment is already a contributor under the scheme, from continuing his contributions thereto.

(6) If an officer obtains exemption under this section, any contributions pre- viously made by him under this Ordinance shall be returned to him without interest.